ARTICLES ABOUT REPLACEMENT PLAYERS BY DATE - PAGE 4

They have ordered T-shirts for Sunday, 32 of them, teal-and-black T-shirts that bear the following inscription: "We have no Fehr." Now the replacement Marlins, caught in the middle of baseball's endless labor war, just hope they get a chance to wear them. "Us old guys, our hearts can't take it any more," said left fielder Matt Winters, who came up with the idea for the T-shirts. "This could be one serious head-and-shoulder fake." The Marlins broke camp Friday. They piled onto buses, hitched rides with teammates, pointed themselves toward Joe Robbie Stadium.

Nice day for pitcher Jose Roman. He woke up in the Dominican Republic, flew to join the Marlins in time to pitch in the team's 12-4 win over the Kansas City Royals, and found himself trying to strike out the replacement Ted Williams in the seventh. Not bad for a pitcher who arrived with the following endorsement from Marlins' General Manager Dave Dombrowski: "He used to be a top prospect." The Marlins break camp today, but they haven't stopped their tinkering. The team has until 6 p.m. Sunday to put the finishing touches on its 32-man replacement roster and may use every last second.

Kent Wallace, in his fourth professional season, came to spring training with hopes of improving his stock as a Yankee. He obviously succeeded. Wallace will be the team's Opening Day pitcher Monday against the Rangers if the season begins with replacement players. "I didn't think much about being the Opening Day pitcher when I decided to train under the major league staff," said Wallace, a right-hander with an 18-9 record over three seasons at Class A with a 2.56 ERA and seven saves. "There was too much time left for the strike to be settled, and it may still be settled.

As friends and family of slain professional baseball hopeful David Shotkoski gathered Wednesday for his funeral, one woman's tearful whispers in the quiet funeral home foyer spoke loudly for those who could not find words: "When is the system going to wake up?" She was speaking of a Florida correctional system that apparently allowed longtime criminal Neal Douglas Evans to slip through its cracks. Evans on Tuesday was charged with fatally shooting Shotkoski near a West Palm Beach hotel where he and other Atlanta Braves replacement players were staying.

A week before Opening Day, the Marlins have tapped into a new source of talent in their never-ending search for replacement players. Juan Bustabad, 33-year-old manager of the Marlins' rookie league team, on Saturday became the major league team's newest shortstop. Another staff member, Rod Allen, hitting coach for Class A Kane County, took some batting practice and may get a look as an outfielder, although a bad knee makes that improbable. Another infielder, perhaps already in minor league camp, is expected today.

You don't know them. The Marlins have unveiled their strategy for selling replacement baseball, taking out full-page advertisements in local newspapers, and this is how the ad begins: You don't know them. Talk about truth in advertising. The Marlins are pitching free hot dogs, warm nights and total anonymity. Soon bumper stickers will be appearing all over town: Marlins '95: You don't know them. Or maybe: Marlins '95: Honk if you don't know them. Or how about: Marlins '95: Hey, Lach doesn't know them too well, either.

They are putting the finishing touches on your 1995 Florida Marlins, scribbling out lineups, pondering cuts, wondering which minor-leaguers might still be coaxed into playing ball. Will the catcher be Jimmy Kremers or Mason Rudolph? Will the third baseman be Nick Capra or Dave Patterson? Will the shortstop be Darryl Vice or J.C. Batista? This replacement stuff is getting all too real. Friday, Marlins management will get together in Melbourne and assemble a tentative list of their 32 replacement players.

Quick now, do you know the names of any of baseball's so-called replacement players? Do you want to know any of their names? Will you ever want to know any of their names? Do you care if any of them pitch a no-hitter? If any of them hit four homers in a game? Your answers should be "No," "No," "No," and "No" because Major League Baseball is about to be a masquerade party. When the season opens, Major League Baseball apparently has no intention of providing major league baseball. Major League Baseball, remember, is the club owners' corporate logo.

Haven't lost your mind yet over Replacement Ball? Here's one scenario that may put you over the edge, two weeks before the Plague is upon us. Fact: The Baltimore Orioles are on record as saying they will not play in replacement games. -- Hypothesis: A striking Orioles player, whether out of principle or because he's in dire straits financially, decides to report and tells the team he's ready to play. -- Problem: What are the Orioles to do with a player who wants to play when they don't have a team to play against opponents they refuse to play anyway?

After hearing the latest developments in baseball's labor wars, Marlins manager Rene Lachemann uttered words he had hoped to avoid all spring. "I can't see us opening the season on April 2 with major-leaguers if that's the situation," Lachemann said after hearing that the National Labor Relations Board had issued an unfair labor practices complaint against the owners, an action that has caused further negotiations to be placed on hold. Lachemann said he planned to talk to Marlins GM Dave Dombrowski about the situation Tuesday night, and that anything he said now was speculative at best.